Originally Posted by
athome
The costs of a train ticket from Hamburg to Frankfurt bought one day in advance are >> 25 EUR. Even, if you only take local trains which obliges you to change train several times between both cities, it will cost you 49 EUR.
Direct long distance trains are approximately 100 EUR.
As it is a bit of a most point now anyway, as I am just going to fly up, however in this case it would only have cost me the price of a Seat reservation (€4.50) and only then if I thought the train was going to be rather busy... (he says from an ICE between Stuttgart and Frankfurt having paid exactly €0.00.